https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory These databases include primary sources about life in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Ireland. en-us 2019-03-21 00:07:11 UTC 2025-11-05 11:00:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Folder.png UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343574581 2019-03-20 23:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343574581 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343574644 This includes both primary and secondary sources.]]> 2019-03-20 23:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343574644 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343575823 There are four major sections: Images (digitised pictures of interest to Celticists), Text Archive (links to PDF files of rare material), Celtic Noticeboard (an area devoted to announcements of forthcoming conferences, events, vacancies, publications etc.) and Celtic journals (tables of contents of Celtic Studies journals).]]> 2019-03-20 23:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343575823 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343582643 2019-03-21 00:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343582643 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583041 The Westminster Assembly (1643-1653) was both the largest parliamentary committee of the English civil war and the last of the great post-Reformation synods. The Assembly is perhaps best known as the creed-making body behind the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, documents which have guided Presbyterian and Reformed churches for centuries.]]> 2019-03-21 00:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583041 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583153 2019-03-21 00:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583153 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583578 This is probably the most comprehensive research guide that exists, covering all time periods, countries, continents, and regions.]]> 2019-03-21 00:09:10 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583578 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583631 Their collection focuses on American history but also includes sources on early modern British history.]]> 2019-03-21 00:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583631 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583651 The most comprehensive online resource on Jewish history, politics and culture.]]> 2019-03-21 00:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583651 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583674 Links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. 
The sources cover a broad range of historical happenings (political, economic, social and cultural) and it includes the British Isles.]]> 2019-03-21 00:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583674 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583693 2019-03-21 00:09:43 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583693 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583741 American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. ]]> 2019-03-21 00:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583741 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583760 This consists of three databases: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, and the African Names Database.]]> 2019-03-21 00:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583760 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583775 2019-03-21 00:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583775 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583789 The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries, all of which are available here through the Internet Archive.]]> 2019-03-21 00:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343583789 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343584045 The Victorian Women Writers Project (VWWP) began in 1995 at Indiana University and is primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The collection represents an array of genres - poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more. VWWP contains scores of authors, both prolific and rare.]]> 2019-03-21 00:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343584045 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343584583 The history of imperialism is covered extensively on the world wide web. The sites listed below have been selected to demonstrate some of the high quality resources available. ]]> 2019-03-21 00:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343584583 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343585063 Includes a selection of sources from the British Library on the medieval and early modern periods.]]> 2019-03-21 00:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/343585063 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/352949340 This has created a searchable database of well over eight hundred newspaper advertisements placed by masters and owners seeking the capture and return of enslaved and bound people who had escaped. Many were of African descent, though a small number were from the Indian sub-continent and a few were Indigenous Americans.]]> 2019-04-21 22:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/352949340 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/361407544 2019-05-18 16:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/361407544 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/361407637 2019-05-18 16:57:38 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/361407637 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/361407923 The Bodleian Library (known as "the Bod") is the library at the University of Oxford.]]> 2019-05-18 17:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/361407923 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/361408097 2019-05-18 17:02:07 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/361408097 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/361410450 2019-05-18 17:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/361410450 kristenepps https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/361410958 A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.]]> 2019-05-18 17:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/361410958 UCAHistory https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/373482376 images of medieval graffiti in medieval England arranged by church. ]]> 2019-08-06 22:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/UCAHistory/BritishHistory/wish/373482376